HMP RYE HILL GARDEN PROJECTProject Coordinator John Noble

In the Beginning

Collaboration between Garden Organic and the Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Team (DART)

Positive outcomes

• ‘important asset in assisting prisoners recovering from drug misuse’. (HMI Inspectorate of prisons report).

• ‘It’s changed my behaviour and drug taking; things are changing without even realising it’.

Bees at Rye Hill

The Warre Hive

• Arrived 30/03/15

• Swarmed 5 times 2015, 5 times 2016, 6 times 2017…

Sunhive No. 1

• Colonised from a swarm from Warre on the 16/05/15

• Swarmed 4 times in 2016 and 5 times in 2017

Sunhive No.2

• Colonised 26/05/2015

• Swarmed 6 times in 2016 and 4, possibly 6 times in 2017

Sunhive No. 3

Sunhive No. 3 continued…

• Initially colonised 27/5/15 but badly sited. Deserted June 2016. New hive located end of polytunnel and colonised 6/05/2016 from Sunhive No.1

• Swarmed 5 times in 2017

Sunhive No. 4

• Colonised 1/05/16. abandoned 7/05/16. re-colonised 4.6.16

• Swarmed 3 times 2017. possibly more…

Sunhive No. 5

• Colonised 5/05/16

• Swarmed 22/05/2016?

• Possibly 3 times in 2017.

• The hive we know least about.

Bees and prisoners…

Bees and me…

jnoble@gardenorganic.org.ukhttp://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/rye-

hill